Differences Quote by Bianca Jagger

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

— Noam Chomsky

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the…

— Stephen Kinzer

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against…

— Daniel Ortega

The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail…

— Ernesto Cardenal

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not…

— Stephen Kinzer

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on…

— John Negroponte

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

— Ronald Reagan

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

— Bianca Jagger

“Postwar El Salvador, which another Salvadoran has described as a “casi nación” (an almost nation) sometimes seems like a small geographic space at the…

— Erik Ching

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

— Edwin Meese

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never…

— Isabel Allende

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista…

— Bianca Jagger